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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Sorry, got to complain...
« on: October 21, 2006, 08:27:50 PM »
Unfortunately there's absolutely nothing we can do about it because it's in the hands on our host. As I mentioned to BuzzH privately after she sent me a PM a few days ago on this subject, something is apparently up with our host's MySQL database server. For example, the other day I attempted to backup the database three times but couldn't get past 50% before the MySQL server spit me out. And it took 20 minutes to get that far even though it normally only takes 5 minutes to backup the whole thing. The forum's system is completely database reliant (as most forum systems are these days), so any problems with a databse server are going to affect it.
The really interesting thing is that whatever the problem is, it comes and goes. For instance, I was able to backup the database on the 17th in the usual 5 minutes. And at least 75% of the time the forum has been behaving normally for me. Maybe I've just had good timing. Though that being said, the forum is definitely sluggish at the moment...
The really interesting thing is that whatever the problem is, it comes and goes. For instance, I was able to backup the database on the 17th in the usual 5 minutes. And at least 75% of the time the forum has been behaving normally for me. Maybe I've just had good timing. Though that being said, the forum is definitely sluggish at the moment...